In a maelstrom of evil, can a new magistrate, samurai Mochizuki Koheita, with a reputation like an alley cat, bring order to the town of Horisoto, or is he, too a corrupt villain looking to gain wealth from the oppressed people? From the pen of famed samurai author Yamamoto Shugoro, this exciting tale turns the tables on the standard samurai story with a unique lead character previously portrayed in Ichikawa Kon’s “Dora Heita.”

Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.

Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, whic...

Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie s...

Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice gam...

The background to and depiction of a watershed battle in Japanese history, at Sekigahara in 1600, wh...

A Japanese bullet train is threatened with a bomb that will explode automatically if the train slows...

The second film in the 20 Duels of Young Shingo trilogy directed by Sadatsugu Matsuda.

While on his journey through the countryside of Japan, Shingo encounters many people whose lives hav...

Paul Racine, a high-powered American business executive in Japan, is catapulted into a maze of dange...

Chinese filmmaker François Chang studies in Paris. One day, he saw on YouTube a video of a Japanese ...

Fewer samurai films are being made, and the Uzumasa studio has fallen on hard times. One day, vetera...

After failing his university entrance exam, Yuki Hirano sets his eyes on the role of a forestry trai...

Summoned by his dying father, Miyagi returns to his homeland of Okinawa, with Daniel, after a 40-yea...

The true story of Charlotte Salomon, a young German-Jewish painter who comes of age in Berlin on the...

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs pr...

Two warriors in pursuit of a stolen sword and a notorious fugitive are led to an impetuous, physical...

In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a ...

During China's Tang dynasty the emperor has taken the princess of a neighboring province as his wife...

The Way of Drama unfolds in the world of kabuki in Osaka, but also addresses the politics of popular...

Near the end of the shogunate in Japan, Katsura Shogoro and his fellow samurai from the southwestern...